Spencer Brewer & Esther Siegel Overview
Transforming the everyday cast-off into something extraordinary…
Spencer Brewer & Esther Siegel have a passion for creating quirky and fantastical pieces of art out of re-purposed, or ‘found art’ materials. From the whimsical and humorous to the punk and dark, each piece is one of a kind. Creating “new compositions” from vintage or unusual objects, they inspire viewers with a sense of delight, surprise and sometimes awe.
Working both separately and as a team, Spencer & Esther confer regularly on their artwork. “We don’t always have the same vision, but we always listen and that feedback can open new doors.” Their studio is a wonderland of eccentric odds and ends and then some. Nicknamed the “Barn of Curiosities, Oddities and Light”, one discovers a much venerated collection of eccentric obsolete ephemera & vintage electromechanical obscura giving these artists endless options for their transformative art.
Esther Siegel
Esther’s “late in life artist” emerged from the scrapbooking world. From there she expanded to unique one of a kind greeting cards and then moved into ‘found art’ sculptures. Her pieces are a mixture of the whimsical and dark humor. They range from Barbie Doll parts (Altered Barbies) to old neck ties (Awards), to horse and doll parts (Horse People) and antique toasters (Twisted Toasters). She describes her creative process as sometimes very slow and frustrating and goes through many variations on a theme before settling on the finished piece.
Spencer Brewer
Spencer Brewer has been creating art and music since he could walk. For much of his life his focus was on pianos, composing, creating, recording and producing music. He also worked on over 20,000 pianos, crank phonographs and pump organs which gave him the opportunity to collect unique and obscure vintage mechanical objects along the way.
In 2006 he began to focus his creative energy on ‘re-purposed or found-art’, using parts he had amassed over the years to create unusual sculptures. “I love vintage 60-150 year-old beautifully designed parts and objects. The graphic design and engineering of the industrial to the science fiction eras inspire me.”

Sunny has been experimenting with and around the digital arts realm for many years. With the digital realm comes a great vast expanse of possibility, and Sunny has enjoyed the expansive nature to it’s fullest. From digital photo-editing, to animation, to computer controlled routers, the endless possibilities reflect from his work. Color, shape, design; all interplay in this new, modern medium expression.

“Music is my medicine, my story of healing. my offering to you, on your journey, to help you find your Medicine in your own song, with in your own rhythm.”
Lavender Grace Cinnamon is dedicated to the tools of Heart Song Medicine, for the good of all, for the collective evolution of all beings. She is a Sacred Ecology Specialist, and facilitator of Intuitive Drum Song, a course created by the lands and people of Northern California, informed by the lineage of her Celtic Ancestors & the influences of Moorish song and dance.
At the very core, Lavender Grace is instructed by the Bees. She moves to the rhythm of the hive, the path of co-existence, the life song path, the life dance to the beat of the heart drum. Dedicated to the shared responsibility of our times, to elevate our consciousness. Come, show up, be courageous, you are needed!
She is a facilitator, musician, actor, dancer, poet, artist, and consultant to those in need of her services. For more info visit www.honeyhivemendo.com

A 1987 graduate of UCLA and a lifetime member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Blake More is an artist with many creative voices and expressions. Blurring the boundaries between disciplines, her work embraces visual art, poetry, video, performance, costume design, teaching, functional mixed media art/life pieces and hand-painted art cars, including her newest artcar, a Mercedes SL500 painted with a metallic palette she calls “Star Yantra” (staryantra.life).
Blake first stepped on stage in Japan in 1994, when she agreed to recite poetry with a friend’s jazz band at a Shinjuku music club in Tokyo. Since then, she has performed her spoken word art in a range of venues—from cafes, art galleries and museums to 1000 seat theaters—in major cities all over the world, including Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, Amsterdam, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Her performance art is a fusion of spoken word, music, yogic contortion, dance, trapeze, clowning and costuming. She creates to reveal, questions to inspire and shares to engage the audience in soulful expression.
Among her performance highlights are the time she shared the stage with jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and beat poet Tony Seymour in a Bob Kaufman tribute reading at the Main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, and the International Poetry Festival in Amsterdam (sponsored by the Provost Poets). She has traveled cross country on a performance tour with a group of San Francisco performance artists and musicians that then became the movie “Head Trip”. But her favorite project to date is a multimedia play called Boxing Pandora, which she wrote, produced, costumed, directed and stared in; 75 minutes long, the play itself involved the efforts of over 20 local artists and included an original score, original video (both live and prerecorded), a 13 member Greek-inspired chorus, poetic monologue, dance, audience participation and a trapeze (no monkeys though).
A freelance writer for 15 years, Blake’s work appeared in Utne Reader, Yoga Journal, Intuition Magazine Alternative Medicine Digest and Tokyo Time Out. To date, she has written two non-fiction books, one fiction book, and three poetry chapbooks. Her most successful book is a holistic health book entitled Alternative Medicine’s Definitive Guide to Headaches, which has sold over 100,000 copies sold to date. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals and books, including Heart Flip (CPITS anthology), The Alchemy Of The Word: Voices At the Edge, San Francisco Poets Live At Venue 9, Wood, Water, Air and Fire: Anthology of Mendocino Women Poets, Hard Love: Looking at Violence & Intimacy, The Toaster Broke, So We’re Going To Get Married. Author of five books of poetry, her book godmeat is a collection of poetry, prose, color artwork, and a DVD compilation of poem movies (available at godmeat.com), and her chapbook Up In the Me World is available on her website.
In addition to her writing, she teaches poetry, multimedia art and performance to K-12 youth. A California Poets In the Schools (CPITS) poet teacher since 2000, she is also the Mendocino County Area Coordinator for CPITS. She organizes two annual Mendocino County High Schgool Poetry Slams and serves as the coach of the Point Arena Youth Poetry Slam Team. She also writes grants to do special, longer residencies, including:
One of these projects was entitled “The Poetry Of The Blues”, in which she and New Orleans blues pianist Nelson Lunding guided 2nd thru 8th grade students in the writing of original 12 bar blues songs (with titles such as “Rocks in my Shoes”, “Our Bus Life” “Soap Opera School”), which were then arranged by Nelson and sung by the kids. These recordings were compiled into five original Kids Blues CDs, and one compilation CD entitled “We’re Playing Blues”, which is currently on sale as a fundraiser for “Gualala Arts In the Schools”.
In another especially noteworthy youth project, she and videographer Christian Birk guided six Native American youth in the creation of a documentary film about living on the Pomo Reservations of Kashia, Point Arena, and Manchester in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. Because of its raw power and unadorned honesty, the youth film crew became one of 14 youth groups in the nation to be invited to participate in the 2003 Reel Studio Young Filmmakers Workshop at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; the film has been widely shown to diverse audiences, from schools to art centers, from tribal centers to businesses and social service organizations. It even managed to land a spot on the shelf in the Smithsonian Cultural Heritage Library.
She hosts an hour-long public affairs program called Women’s Voices on KZYX&Z FM Mendocino. She is also sits on several non-profit arts and education boards, and volunteers with many local organizations. For an extensive list and exploration of Blake More’s creative world please visit her website: www.snakelyone.com

I’m proud to make an announcement.
My 3-D painting “Tintin & l’Affaire de l’Orbe Pourpre” (Tintin & The Case of The Purple Orb) won, at the 57th Annual Art in the Redwoods Fine Arts Exhibit, both Best of Show and Most Popular (voted by viewers), a first in Gualala Art history.
I also would like to announce 2 upcoming solo exhibitions in 2019: Tim Carmody gallery in May, and Gualala Art Center in June.
The common thread present in all of my work is a joyful playfulness.
My work puts the viewer, whatever their age, back in touch with some childhood feelings. I have seen individuals entering my exhibit with family members, obviously not wanting to be there, and within seconds, their attitude changes. Their eyes lighten up and their facial expression is transformed. They are obviously enjoying themselves.
My paintings are interactive, and require a participation from the viewer. There is a playful inter-action taking place.
I place cultural icons and other elements of contemporary popular culture into a new context to illustrate thought provoking social, political or cultural issues.
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PDFs TO VIEW:
Mona Series + Kinetic Mona
Kinetic Paintings + 3 D Paintings
Acrylic & Oil
Lightbox
Water Soluble Color Pencil + Pencil Work
Pen & Ink + Whimsical Sculptures
Glass Painting
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LINKS TO VIDEOS
Tintin & The Case of The Purple Orb (00:49)
The King & The Duke (00:48)
Nuns With Guns (00:46)
Mona Blue Sky (00:35)
Mona Purple Sky (00:39)
Pandemonium Fairyland 2 (01:37)
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Below: – The King & The Duke – acrylic on wood panel – 22 x 37 inches (3 views of the same painting)
In my kinetic art, the image changes depending on your relative position to the painting. The gallery visitors are seen playfully walking back and forth in front of the painting to witness the transformations of the image. In other paintings, the viewer can physically transform the overall image into a myriad of possibilities.
My work is extremely detailed, packed with hidden whimsical information that can only reveal itself upon scrutiny.
Using a bright palette, I paint in acrylic on multi-faceted wood structures.
Below: Nuns with Guns – acrylic on wood panel – 37 x 37 inches – (3 sides on 1 photo)
My goal is to provoke an element of surprise, and transmit playfulness and whimsy to the viewer.
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Watch the video presentation of my work:
https://www.facebook.com/richard.weiss.942
– Animated slide show of pen work:
Watch the trailer and selected scenes from my film The Book: https://www.youtube.com/user/thebookthemovie/featured
– Short morphing video created for The Book – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcVQAFSc8wM&spfreload=10
*- The Book website: http://www.thebook-themovie.com/
* – Alejandro Jodorowsky: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423524/
My work encompasses painting, sculpting, pencil work, music, film and animation.
Here is a sample of my work in these different disciplines.
Music:
I created Dédicace, a conceptual album reuniting internationally known musicians from four continents.
Cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky used Dédicace extensively in his film Tusk.
As a singer/song writer, I performed in Europe and Africa.
I worked as music producer and wrote jingles and film scores in Europe and America.
I played guitar in the Sausalito-based improv. band These Are Not My Hands.
Film:
I wrote, directed and produced The Book, a kitsch science fiction feature film (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers meets Flash Gordon) that pays homage to the sci-fi classics of the 70s and 80s.
Official Selection of festivals in America, Australia and Asia, The Book won 13 awards in 2011, and was hailed as “cult material” by critics and festival audiences.
Fine Art:
I freelanced as a graphic artist in Paris and San Francisco, and created whimsical window paintings for businesses and corporations.
Living on the Mendocino coast since 2002, I have been exhibiting my pointillist drawings in local galleries.
In 2015, I began working in acrylic and mixed media.
My Pop art Surrealism style is playful. The subjects are illogical and irrational.
I worked on a series of thematic subjects, such as Mona Lisa, and a whimsical series of lit painted boxes. I’ve developed interactive paintings that invite the viewer to transform the overall image into a myriad of possibilities.